The Boy With Two Worlds - [Ereri/Riren]

Chapter Four - New Introductions

Credit to the artist of the drawing above.

Eren's POV

Tons of students and a teacher staring at me.

Well there goes my confidence.

I stood there, watching all the students whispering to each other and glancing at me. God this was my worst fear. I gulped and my breath quickened, Armin grabbed me by the arm and led me to the teachers desk where an older bald looking man with a thick gray moustache was sitting, telling all the students to quiet down.

"Hi Mr. Pixis! This is Eren, he's a new student here and I was showing him to this class." Armin began. "Do you think he can sit next to me for now so I can help him out?" He asked the teacher happily. Mr. Pixis nodded, smiling slightly and turning to me. "Hello, I am Mr. Pixis and I assume based on what Armin stated that you are new here? What's your full name, boy?" Mr. Pixis asked in a raspy voice.

I swallowed my nervousness so I wouldn't make a fool out of myself, and stuck out a hand for the teacher to shake. "Eren, Eren Jaeger, sir." I replied quickly. He chuckled and looked back at his computer where he pulled up a list with student's names on it.

He scrolled through the list for a few seconds before he landed on my name. "Ah, yes." He began. Soon he took my waiting hand in his grasp to shake firmly. "Nice to have you in my class, you may sit next to Armin for the rest of the year if you may like." He continued.

My eyes widened, I didn't know teachers could be this nice and cooperative. I thought in my head as Armin cheered happily. He grabbed my hand which made me flinch slightly and dragged me to the back of the class where two empty seats were conveniently placed by a window.

"I told you everything would go well! Like I said, I'm good friends with the teacher, so don't worry about having any bad tension with him, he's cool." Armin told me happily as he placed his school supplies on his desk. I smiled up at him lightly trying to ignore the lingering eyes from other students.

I finally settled down on my seat and nervously fiddled around with my belongings, everything seemed to be going okay for now- "Students, settle down, we have a new student. Mr. Jaeger, would you please come up to the front of the class?"

Oh god.

Everyone went silent, I looked up to see every single student in the room looking at me expectantly. I awkwardly shifted my eyes around the room, and my gaze landed on Armin who was sitting next to me, smiling brightly and giving me two thumbs up with a confident look on his face.

I felt the anxiety overflow in my body, and I nervously scrambled to place my supplies on the desk and stand up, only to scoot my chair back and accidentally cause it to scrape across the tile floor extremely loudly. I winced at the awkward tension and starting walking past all the desks filled with staring teenagers, and towards the front of the class -nearly tripping on the way.

A few students chuckled and I finally got to the front of the class. I stood next to Mr. Pixis' desk and coughed awkwardly. I took a deep breath, closing my eyes temporarily, trying to wash away my nervousness -which wasn't really working- and opened my eyes. All of the students were paying attention to me and it was only making things worse.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and I flinched, I turned to see Mr. Pixis standing text to me, he leaned over and started talking. "Would you like to introduce yourself?" He asked quietly, so only I could hear. I sighed and looked around the room for a few seconds longer.